These witty stories were originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his own children. In them he gives fanciful accounts of how and why things came to be as they are._x000D_
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Generations of children have delighted to learn how the Leopard got his spots, how the Elephant's Child on the banks of the great grey-green Limpopo acquired his trunk with the help of the Crocodile, and the beginning of the Armadillos._x000D_
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Beautifully illustrated in black-and-white by the author, these delightful tales will hold the reader and listener spellbound.
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Generations of children have delighted to learn how the Leopard got his spots, how the Elephant's Child on the banks of the great grey-green Limpopo acquired his trunk with the help of the Crocodile, and the beginning of the Armadillos._x000D_
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Beautifully illustrated in black-and-white by the author, these delightful tales will hold the reader and listener spellbound.